Yield

These materials of barbed wire, corn, twine, net wrap, hay, cow bones, rope, and soybeans explode from ceramic drainage tile all harvested from a six hundred acre family-share dating back five generations in Solon, Iowa. In an effort to memorialize the stages of life and death and decay so prevalent there, the materials become transformed. Exaggerations in scale are a reflection of the massive equipment needed to harvest the years' yield.

So Take to the Fields

You Midwest Wanderers.

Barbed Wire Beware.

Iowa City, Iowa 2015

Hoard

This is an exploration of the sentiment put into objects and the intimacy of hoarded assemblages. It’s a curated collection from boxes and boxes of objects held onto by my ancestors.

Iowa City, Iowa 2014

Catch or Be Caught

Made of farm refuse, the original function of the contrasting barriers was to either hold something in or keep something out.

Iowa City, Iowa 2015

Second Season

These marks are the story left after two days of drips, dragging, skinning, and walking. Three yards of canvas was rolled out at the door to a shed where deer are brought to be skinned and cut up post-hunt.

Solon, IA

2016

Something Humorous About Carnivores

A critical look into the industry of beef cattle. Cow bones and table were collected from the farm I grew up on. The delicious and nutritious cheeseburgers came from McDonalds and a ketchup, mustard, and pickle painting for the wall.

Iowa City, Iowa 2015

Nekroponic Garden

A Nekroponic Garden is a desperate attempt at growing the ungrowable. It's striving to summon life from the unliving. Steel rods, screws, and rocks were planted in cups of fish bones. A milky substance dripped from the planters, filling the silence with eerie pitter patters.

Seyðisfjörður, Iceland 2016

Another Dimension

Exhibited in Iowa City, Iowa in 2014 and Seydisfjordur, Iceland in 2016.

Wormtube Carcass

A reflective carcass with a glowing ribcage portal to transport you from the outside world into the belly of the beast for the performance Ontogenesis: Towards an Opera Of/For Known & Unknowable Un-I-Verses.

Seydisfjordur, Iceland

2016

GLITTER BOMB

As the balloon loses air, a bomb is detonated.

Iowa City, Iowa 2015

Deus Ex Machina

A quick fix solution for deforestation… glue them back together! It’s almost too good to be true.

Iowa City & Solon, Iowa 2013

Bittersweet

Iowa City, Iowa 2013

Asteriskos

Iowa City, Iowa 2015

Sculpture Sketches

Sculpture Sketches are creative exercises. Quick assemblages that come from a meditative space in the mind; perhaps made of farm finds, perhaps made from a loaf of hair stolen from a brush. Material energy is spotlighted.